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EOGENTRIG TOOL AND WORK HOLDER. No. 450,234.

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-. i.NDREi\"'- JOHNSON, or oHIoAe'o, ILLINOIS.

ECCENTPHC TOQL AND WORK HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,234, dated'April 14, 1891. Application filed April 25, 1890. Serial No.349,493- (No model.)

To all whom may concern:

' Be it known that I, ANDREW Jonnson, a

.citizen of the United States, residing at Chi cago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Eccentric Tool and \Vork Holder, which are fully set forth in the fol-' lowing specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide novel means for com mu nieatin g rotary motion eceentrically with respect to the axis whereabont it originates in such manner that the center oraxis of the communicated motion may be shifted constantly or at will without interrupting the rotary motion, the same device being adapted for use as a work-holder and for other purposes, as hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan of my device disconnected from any machine, the form being that which is adapted for a toolholder or chuck for the lathe or drill-press. Fig. 2- is a plan of the device with the baseplate removed, showing the interior mechanism. Fig. is a section at thelineS 3 on Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a section at the line 4 4 ouFig.

2. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the two tram-- mels or sliding guides which control the movementof the chuck. Fig. 6 is a plan of the modification of. the device shown in the preceding figures to adapt the implement to be I used as a bed or work-holder in a drill-press or similar machine or as a fixed head in a 7 is a plan of the same with the face-plate removed. Fig. 8 is a section at the line 8 E-onFig. 7. Fig. 9 is a section at the line 9 Son Fig. 8, the position of the device and the direction of view being the same as in Fig. 7. Fig. 10 is a section at the line 10 10 on Fig. 8. Fig.- 1U- is a perspective of a trammel for this modification. Fig. 11 is a front elevation of-adrill-press having m'ydevice attached as the tool or chuck holder and showing meanslfor adjusting the position of the tool-andfor shifting itsposition cont-inuously or atrigillcduring work, the adjusting devices beingshown in vertical section. Fig. 12- is a side elevation of the-attachment for controliingmv .toolholder it lathe.

of this opening corresponds with i the drill-press center a circuiar, opening 0',

,Fig'. 13is .aderail front either the chuck-axis or the drive-wheel. Fig- In Figs. 1t and 15.

15 is a plan of the same. details not necessary to illustrate the invention are omitted and many parts broken-away to show those which pertain more immediately to the feature to be illustrated. Fig. 16 is a plan or face elevation of the device shown in Fig. 6, with a slight modification as to the modeofadjhsting to adapt it to be used asa rotating head instead of a fixed head. Fig. 17 is an edge elevation of is a View of the same-character as Fig. 2, but showing a construction with only one trammel. Fig. 19 is a section such as shown on Fig. 18,sectio n being made at the plane indicated by the line 19 19 .on Fig. 18. Fig. 20 is a section at the lihe 2O 20 on Fig. 19. i

A is the haseplate, which is adapted to be secured at its center to the -revolving shaft from which the motion is to be derived, and in case the device is tobe usedfor light work it may be secured in an ordinary chuck-head of a lathe or drill-press, and for that purpose it may be provided with a tapering spindle A, as indicated in Fig. 4. B is the trammel guide-block. It is a metal blociiof thickness corresponding to the grade and size'of work to be done with the tool, regard being had to the necessary strength merely. Said block an opening through itwhich,asiilnstra-ted, is square, but which is only necessarily parallelogrammic when two tramifnels are employed, as hereinafter described, and when only one trammel is used it only hecessarily has two opposite sides parallel.

the center of the spindle or shaft of the tool. This trammel guide-block is made fastto the baseplate by screws which bind it also to the faceplate 0, which is similar to the base-plate, except that it hes'at the dle or hub, with which the'loase-plate'is pro through a device Thecenter insteadof a spin-- the same. Fig. 18

pass through it and; F

vided as-a means of attaching it to the powershaft or revolving head. Both the face-plate and baseplate are eoncaved or hollowed about the center of surfaces which face the trammel guide-block to guide the tram mel-retaining flanges hereinafter described.

D D are trammels, as I term them. As illustrated, but not necessarily, they are pre cisely alike, each trammel being an oblong frame, which is shown rectangular, but which 'it is only necessary should be formed with two opposite ends parallel. Said frame is made of metal and has an oblong opening (1, which is shown rectangular, but which it is only necessary should have two oppositesides parallel and in a direction transverse to that of. the parallel ends of the said trammel. These trammels have at their ends the flanges I) D. The tranimels, exclusive of the flanges, are each in thickness half the thickness of the 'trammel guide'block, and the flanges D are equal in height to the remaining thickness of the trammel, so that the entire height or thickness of the flanged ends of each trammel is equal to the thickness of the trammel-block; or, considering the trannnel guide-block and base-plate as a unit and the opening in the trammel guideblock as a cavity in the unitary structure made up of that block and base-plate, the sum of the thickness of the two trammels is equal to the depth of that cavity. The lengths of the trammcls, respectively, measuring between the parallelcnds at right angles to those ends, correspond to the dimensions of the parallelogrammic opening in the trammetblock, otherwise named cavity in the base, said dimensions being equal when that opening is square, as illustrated, and the two trammels are laid in said opening crosswise of each other and facing each other that is,having the faces from which the flanges l) project at the ends contacting each other, so that the flanges of each trammel project past the edges of the other trammel. The purpose of these flanges is merely to give broader hearing to the trannnels as they slide in and are guided by the opposite parallel sides of said opening.

E is the trammel-biock, which is parallelogrannnicwhentwo trammelsare employed. As illustrated, its dimensions correspond to the widths of the openings in the-trammels, respectively, and being therefore square when those openings are equal, illustrated. The height or thickness of the trammel-block is equal to that of the trammel guide-block or depth of the cavity in the base, which is made up on the base-plate andsaid guide block. It is equal, therefore, to the. sum of the thickness of the twot'rammels as theylie crossing each other. It is adapted,therefore, to pass through them both, occupying the space which is outlined by the parallel sides of one trammel in one direction and the parallel sides of the other trammel in the opposite direclion-aathey lie across each other.

This trammel-block is preferably made rigid with the shifting chuck or tool holder E, and is provided with the two flanges E between which the trznnmels are embraced and by which they are retained securely in position, one of said flanges being removable and se cured by a screw e to the tram mel-block. To

accommodate these flanges in the movement which will hereinafter be described, circular cavities a and b, respectively, are formed upon the inner surfaces of the base plate andv the face-plate, respectively. Rigid with the trammel-block there is also the guard-plate or covering-flange on theside toward the tool-holder outside the face-plate and in contact therewith. The diameter of this covering-flange or guard-plate is such that the opening C would be covered by it at all po-, sitions of the holder.

The parts above described are assembled in a manner indicated in the drawi ngsthat is to say, the trammel guide-block is placed upon the face-plate. The tram met-block, having rigid with it the guard-plate, is entered through the circular opening in the faceplate, and the trammels are then placed thereon in the square opening in the trammel guideblock and secured in that position by the removable flange E", and the base-plate is then applied from the back side of the trannnel guide-block and secured by means of screws, which pass through said face plate and through said trammcl guide-block and into the base-plate, binding the entire structure together. When thus assembled, the device is ready for use or for connection to a machine wherein it may be used as a toolholder with a shifting center. In Fig 11 it is illustrated as connected in the usual position of securing the chuck in the vertical head of a drill-press. In case of heavy work it log would be necessary to provide means for securing it rigidly; but in light work it may be secured in the ordinary manner in which a chuck is secured in such positions-that is, by a tapering spindle being forced into the tapering head.

In order to adapt the device to housed as a shifting or adjustable tool-holder, it is'necessary to provide a shit ti n g or adj uslable bears ing for the holder E. This may be done by means of an arm secured in any way upon the bed or frame of the machine, having an eye atz-the end adapted to serve as a bearing for the chuck or tool holder l. Such arm may be secured in a very simple manner, as by a clamping-bolt passing through a slot on the arm, and'having a,binding shoul der to engage above the arm, such bolt being loosened to permit the shifting'of the'arm and thereby the tool-holder to a new position. The device shown in Fig. 13 may be used in this manner.

In order to allow for the vertical movement 'of'the tool in drilling, theholder E" should be long enough to allow range of vertical movement through the eye N equal to the depth bracket H by bolts which pass through said of hole to be drilled. hen the tool-holder is set eccentric'ally with respect to the chuckhead G, the rotary motion of the chuckdiead and of the entire implement above described attached thereto will produce rotary movement of the holder about its own axis in the bearing thus provided forit on the arm N, the trammels sliding in the tram mel-block as the latter revolve about the center of the opening therein to accommodate-theeccentric position of the holder; the tramniel-bloclt controlled by the trammels fitting it, compelling the rotation of the holder'as the said trammels are rotated about the center of the trammel-block.

In order to use this 'tool for executing engraving or irregular figures or for cutting mortises or similar work, a more complete device for shifting the bearing of the tool-holder is necessary, and such a device is illustrated in Fig. 11. As thus illustrated, G is the press,

standard supporting the usual mechanismi'or operating the drill-head G. G2 is the work bed or table provided in the usual manner with means for holding the work by dogs. H is a bracket provided expressly for the purpose of attaching to the pressthe means which I am about to describe for operating my iinproved implement. This bracket is adapted to be bolted to the bed through any of the openings in the latter which are provided for the purpose of fastening the-work or to be clamped onto itsedge, and when thus secured it is designed to be rigid with the bed. This bracket has a vertical arm H, to which is fastened the frame J, said bracket having also'a vertical arm J, which is longitudinally slotted, and being secured to the arm H of the slot and enter said arm H, the slot allowing the bracketJ to be adjusted vertically,-

as the exigencies of the work may require. In the outer extremity of the bracket J there is journaled in a vertical bearing a shaft K, which has at its lower end a worm-wheel K, which is engaged by the worm L, journaled' horizontally on the bracket J. Said worm is provided with a handle L, by which it may be rotated to operate the shaft K. Above its bearing in the bracket J the shaft K has secured to it or made integral with it theunder half of a journal-box K in which is journaled a sleeve lvl, suitably retained by the upper half of the journal-box, said sleeve being prevented from moving longitudinally in the journal-box by its flanges on each side of said journal-box, and having a handle M by which it maybe rotated, and interiorly threaded axially to receive the screw-shafts N, upon one end of which is the eye N, which forms a bearing for the tool-holder E. It will be observed that by rotating the two haudles L and Iii tilt eye K may be made to assume any position about the axis of the shaft K within the range of the longitudinal udjustability of the shaft N, and the eye being made to receive the tool-holdcr serves as the means for adjusting the latte'i' t'o any p0 at any such position.

In operating with my implement contii olled by the attachmentabo'y e described, any milling-tool being grasped in the tool-holder, and the main vertical shaft of thedrill-press being rotated as the tool. enters into the-work,

suchiool may be made to traverse any path Within the range of adj ustability of the tool holder by the operator rotating the sleeve M and the worm L in the proper direct-ionby means of theirhandles. Such shifting of the position of the tool-holder will at no time in terrupt its rotary motion, and the tool grasped therein may thereby be made to cut grooves of any desired shape or to engrave or-trace.

the surface of the work with any desired pattern.

For the purpose of work in wood or for tracing or merely working the surface a much simpler contrivance may be uscd-as, for example, such a device as illustrated in- Fig. 13, wherein the eye N is on the end of an arm N, which is longitudinally slotted and supported upon flat-topped post W, secured to the bed and guided about a stud 20 at the top of the post, entering the slot n in the arm N of the eye. The said arm N being pro vided with two handles N N, maybe given any desired movement by hand to cause the eye N and the tool therein to follow any desired path. as a bed or fixed head to hold work to be operated upon in a drill-press or lathe,-and when designed for that purpose the boss, which constitutes the tool-holder, willbe omitted, and the base may no longer require the central spindle, but may be otherwise secured directly to the machine, or may beseeured by means of such spindle if the machine is adapted to that mode of securing the bed, and the flange or guard-plate E will be made in the usual form of a bed or work'receiviug head, being provided with the radial grooves or other devices by which the dogs 0 may be secured thereto for the purpose of holding work. When thus used, in order to shift such bed and the Work thereon under the drill or under or opposite. to the tool, I provide each of the trammels with an arm D projecting. from the middle of its longer side and from the surface thereof opposite the other trammel, such arm lying or base-plate, as the case may be, and protruding from the peripheryof the implement. At the periphery I provide the tram mel guideblock with lugs B 13 in which are journaled the intcriorly-threaded sleeves P P, suitably retained by their flanges p in the journalboxes formed on said lugs, and having each a craukarm and handle I P, by which they may be rotated by hand. Through these tl adcd sleeves the arms D D of the tram- This device is adapted to be used IIO in a groove provided for it in the face-plate the sleeves are screwed into the arms before the adjustable bearing, such as is shown in the sleeves are laid in their beariugsand the Figs. 11 and Such a device is illust ated ftrammels are laid in the tranni'iel-block. The in Figs. 1% and 15 in connection wit the 70 parts being now assembled, as before dewheel. It will be understood thatt re en- 5 scribed, and the entire implement being setire appliance there represented as being cured upon the bed of a drill-press or to the supported by being clamped onto the bed 'i fixed head of a lathe, and the work to be opmay be set in position to be operated in conerated upon being secured by the dogs upon junction with either of the other wheels W, 75

the plate E the work may be shifted within 7', or WV. lVhen used for drilling, the jour- 10 the range of movement permitted to the tramnal-box U should be fixed axially in line with meis in the implement by'the operator rotatthe box V when thewheel used is in con ing the handles of the two sleeves. I tact with the driving-wheel Z, so that there One of the most useful applications of this will be no interior friction in the device. 80

I device is shown in Figsll and l5,wherein it 'lhe construction by which the arm U is is utilized asa means of communicating power adapted to be fixed rigidly in position or alin a multiple-spindle drill-press from the cenlowed to drop off from the sleeve E at will tral power-whecl to the several drills. In is that it is pivoted at the inner end at u bethese figures, Z is the standard of the frame tween two lugs Z Z, which extend a "Eonsid- S5 of the press, through which the powerccmerable distance horizontally from the standmunicating shaftYextends vertically, receivard Z and near their ends have holes ing motion from any convenient point below adapted to receive a pininserted horizontally the standard or through the bottom of it. Y through both lugs, and the .arm U has, in is the main power-wheel,- fixed upon the upper proper position to be in line with these holes 0 end of the shaft Y, at the top of the standwhen said arm is extended horizontally, a ard Z. As illustrated, this powerswheel is a hole adapted to admit such pin, and when friction-wheel, having a \l-shaped groove in the said arm is to be used as illustrated, beits periphery, the design being to communiing lifted to a horizontal position, the pin is cate motion by friction in such groove with inserted through the lugs and through the 95 the V shaped peripheries of the several arm, thereby securing it in that position. 3o driven wheels \V, ll, \W, and These \Vhen the pin is withdrawn, the arm may fall several wheels are each constructed like from the sleeve E the cap of the box U bethe tool-holder illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, ing loosened to permit it to slip off. and 5, except that instead of the spindle A It will be understood that the style of ma- [00 they are each provided with the hub 10, havchine to which these figures show my device 5 ing a flange w at its upper end, said hub beapplied as a frictional wheel is one in whiching journaled in a suitable box V provided the work table or bed '1 is adapted to revolve at the end of the horizontal lever V, which about the standard to shift the work to any is pivoted at 1; on the arm 7/, which projects positionthat is, under or in the range of any 10 5 from the standard Z below the wheel Y and one of the fou r tools operated by the four 40 reaches out past said wheel and then projects wheels I, \Y, \W, and The appliances upward past it, so that the said pivot-bearing for adjusting the work-bed in such a machine I) is above the'plane of the upper surface of would be the same as in any machine simi-' both the wheels Y and \V W -W W A larly provided with a rotating bed. y no short segment-ratchet 7 is formed on the he construction illustrated in Figs. (3 to 9, arm Z, and on the lever Y there is pivoted inclusive, may be modified, as shown in Figs.

a dog V adapted to engage the ratchet-teeth 16 and 17, by the omission of the crank-arms on the segment Z and to be released by opand handles 1 from the sleeves P, and inerating a finger-lever V conveniently lostead causing said sleeves to protrude from 1 15 cated near the handle of the lever V and their journal-boxes, the protruding portion connected by a rod with the dog, this conbeing polygonal in cross section, adapted struction being a familiar one "for similar to receive a wrench, and by providing the purposes. It will be seen that by swinging base-plate with an interiorly-threaded hub A the lever V horizontally the wheel journaled of the usinl form to adapt it to be screwed to 120 at the end of it may be thrown into frictional the revolving head of a lathe, and when thus 5 5 engagement with the wheel Y or out of such modified the device may be used to hold work engagement, as desired. A hearing is proin the revolving lathel1ead to be operated vided for the tool-holding sleeve E in an arm upon by a tool held in the fixed center of the U, projecting from the standard Z and havlathe, the work being adjusted by means of r2 ing a suit: ble journal-box U to afford such wrenches operating upon the wrench-heads 6o bearing at its outer end. \Vhen the machine of the sleeves in the same manner as in the is designed to be used only for drilling, this fixed bed it would be adjusted by the crankarm may be rigid with the standard Z; butl handles P. Any mechanic will understand have illustrated it adapted to be made rigid how this implement arranged in this way I 50 with the standard or to be released and 3.1- would be useful for the purpose describedin' lowed to drop away from the tool-holding lathe-work by alfording facility for bringing sleeve E at the will of the operator, in order any point of the work to the center for reamthat in its place there may be substituted ing out or countersinking holes or centering other portions of the work to by fixed tools in the tool head. I For cated in l igs. 1' to 5, inclusive, and in Figs. 11 to to, lllClllSlVe, it is not essential that there should be two trammels, one being sui' ficlent to produce and i as described, the trammel being guided in one direction in opposite parallel sides of the opening in the trammel guide-block or cavity in the base, and the trammel-block being guided in the transverse direction by the tlvoopposite parallel sides of the opening in the tramniel, and the directions of the remaining sides of the open lugs lI1 the trammel guide -block and in the be d resscd oft tram mel are obviously inunaterial-tl1atis,it is -'the word guided by immaterial Whether these openings are parallelogramuuc, provided only the opening in the trarnmel guide-block or cavity in the base have two parallel sides and that the trammel have two parallel ends which cause it to be the parallel sides of said opening, and provided the opening in the trammel have two parallel sides andthe tram m el-bloclts have two parallel edges which adapt it to be guided by the parallel sides of the opening in the trammcl, said parallel sides of the opening in the trammel being transverse to the direct onof the parallel sides of the trammel lgy wh ch it is adapted to be guided, as stated, in the trammel guide-block; and I do not by h transverse in this connection limitmyseltto ninety degrees difference between the two directions described as transverse to each other, although the most uniform action, least friction, and therefore the best results areprobablyobtainable when the direction of the guiding sides of the traminel guide-block or cavity in the base is at right angles to that of the guiding sides of the openmgin the trammel. When two trammels Jar'e used, this difference of direction, being ninety degrees, causes the openin g in the tramlne l to be rectangular, as above described. 1 W0 tram inels are essential when the instrunientis to be used in the manner indicated in Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, and 17. lhe construction with one trammel is illustrated in Figs. 18, 19, and 20.

I clain1- a 1. In combination with the base having a cavity which has two opposite parallel sides, a trammel located in such cavity and extending between such parallel sides and guided thereby in said opening, such trammel having an open ing with two parallel sides whose direction is transverse to that of the parallel sides of the cavity, and a trammcl-block sliding in said opening in the trainmel and guided by the parallel sides of its said opening, substantially asset forth.

2. In combination with the base having a cavity which has two opposite parallel sides,

a lraniniel located in suchcavityand extend ing between such parallelsides and guided therebyin said opcnin g, such ti'ammol having the purpose of use in the manner indi control the movements,

the tranim'ehblock by the two an opening with two parallel sidos,wl1ose drection is transverse .to that. of the parallel sides of theoavlty, and a trammel-block sliding in said opening in the tramtnel and guided by the parallel sides of its opening and provided with means for holding rigid with it tool or work, substantially as set forth.

.3. In combination with the base adapted to besecured at its center in a bearingor to a revolving shaft and having an opening with two opposite parallelsides,a tramnlel located in such opening and extending between such parallelsidesand guided thereby when sliding in said opening, such trammel having an opening with two opposite parallel sides whose direction is transverse to that of the parallel sides of the opening in the base, and a trainincl-block slidingin said opening in the tram-' heel and guided by the parallel sides of said opening, the face-plate overlying said traminel and retaining it in said cavity in the base, said faceplate havi ng a central opening and said trammchblocl; protruding from said opening and adapted at such protruding part to be journaled and rotated in a bearing, and a bearlngfor the same adjustable and adapted to be fixed at will with respect to the base, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

i. In combination with the base having a parallelogrammic cavity, the oblong parallelogrammic tramlnels located transversely to each other in such cavity and guided by its parallel sides, respectively,and having oblong parallelograininic openings, and a trammel; bloclg whose dimensions respectively equal the lesser dimensions of the openings in said t-rammels, respectively, said traminel-block being inserted through said 'openingsin the trammels where they overflow each other, substantially as set forth.

5. In con'ibination with the base having a rectangular parallelogrammio cavity and the oblong rectangular trammcls located. transverse] y to each other in said cavity and guided by its parallel sides, respectively, and having IIO oblong rectangular openings, a rectangular trammel-block whose diincnsionsrespectively equal the lesser dimensions of the openings in the tram inels, respectively, said block being utially as set forth,

6. In combination with the base having a square cavity and the equal oblong rectangular tram mels located transversely to each other in such cavity and guided by its sides and having equal oblong rectangular openlugs, a square trammcl-block whose dimension equals the lesser dimension of the openings in the tram mcls, said block being inserted through said openings where they overlie each other, substantially as set forth.

7. In combination with the base having a parallelogrammic eavitygthc oblong parallelogramniic tranllncls located transversely to each other in said vity and guided by its parallel sides, respectively, and having the oblong parallclogramanic openings, at trann inserted through said openings where they. ,overlie each other, subst mel block whose dimensions respectively equal the lesser dimensions of the openings in the tram mels, respectively, said block being inserted through said openings where they overlie each other and provided with means for holding rigid with it a tool or work, substantially as set forth.

S. In combination With the base having a parallelogrammic cavity, the oblong parallelogrannnic trammels located transversely to each other in said cavity and guided by its parallelsides,respectively, and having oblong l'lfll'tlllGlOglzllll mic openings, a tramn'iel-block whose dimensions respectively equal the openings in the trannnels, respectively, the said block being inserted through said openings where tltey overlie each other and the faceplate overlying said tramniels and secured to the base and having a central opening, said block protruding through said opening an made circular at such protrudiing part, whereby it is adapted to be journalcd and rotated in a bearing, and a bearing for the same adjustable and adapted to be fixed at will with respect to the base, whereby the trammelblock may be located cccentrically with respect to the cavity in the base, substantially as set forth.

9. In combination with the base having a hub or spindle and having a cavity which is parallelogrammic in a plane transverse to the axis of said hub or spindle, the oblong paral-r lelogrammictrammcls located transversely to each other in such cavity and guided by its parallel sides, respectively, and having the oblong parallelogrammic openings, a trainmel block whose tlimensions respectively equal the dimensions of the openings in the trammels, respectively, said block being inserted through said openings where they overlie each other and projecting in a direction parallel to the axis of the spindleof the base, and a bearingorjonrnal-box [or said projecting part adjustable and adapted to be fixed as adjusted with respect to the spindle-axis of the base, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

10. In combination with the revolving powcr-wheel and the standard in which it isjournaled, a wheel adapted to be rotated by the engagement with said revolving wheel, a bearing for the driven wheel adjustable toward and from the driving-wl'iecl, said driven wheel consisting of a base adapted to be supported at its center in said adjustable bearing and having a cavity with two opposite parallel sides on the face opposite such bearing, a trammel located and sliding in such cavity and guided by its said parallel sides and having an opening with two parallel sides in a direction transverse to that of the parallel sides of the cavity in the base, the trammcl-block located and sliding in said opening in the trammel, guided by the parallel sides of said opening and protruding from the trammel on the opposite side from the bearing of said wheel, and a bearing in which'such protruding part of the tram incl-block is journaled, substantially as set forth.

11. In combination with the revolving power-wheel and thestandat-d in which it is journaled, a wheel adapted to be rotated by the engagement with said revolving wheel, a bearing forthe driven wheel adjustable toward and from the driving-wheel,.said driven wheel consisting of a base adapted to be supported at its center in said adjustable bearing and having a cavity with two opposite parallel sides on the face opposite such bearing, a trammel located and sliding in such cavity. and guided by its said parallel sides and having an opening with two parallel sides in a direction transverse to that of the parallel'sides of the cavity inthc base, the trammel-block located and sliding in said opening in the trammel, guided by theparallel sides of said opening and protruding from the trammel on the opposite side from the bearing of said wheel, and a bearing in which such protruding part of the trammel-block is journaled, the axis of said bearing being coincident with the'axis ot' the bearing of the driven -wheel when said wheel is in contactwith the driving-wheel, substantially as set forth. v

'12. In combination with the revolving power-wheel and the standard in whichit is j our-- naled, a wheel adapted to be rotated by the engagement with said revolving wheel, a bearing for the driven wheel adjustable toward and from the driving wheel, said driven wheel consisting of a base adapted to be supported at its center in said adjustable bearing and having a cavity with two opposite parallel sides on the face opposite such bearing, a tramin el located and slidingin such cavity and guided by its parallel sides and having an opening with two parallel sides in a direction transverse to that of the parallel sides of the cavity in the base, the tram incl-block located and sliding in said opening in the trammel, guided by the parallel sides of said opening, and protruding from the trammel on the opposite side from the bearing of said wheel, and a bearing in which such protruding part of the trammel-block is journaled, said bearing being adjustable at will in a plane transverse to its axis, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set' my hand, at Chicago, Illinois, in the presence of two witnesses, this 19th dayot April, Ad). 1990.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

W itncsses:

Guns. S. BURTOX; JEAN Enmo'r'r. 

